Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Name: Molly Make-Believe — I.
Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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“Molly Make-Believe — I.”, is a work by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. It explores elements such as Cornelia, Stanton and Mary Queen.

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fireplace; a shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.
Packed into his pudgy pillows like a fragile piece of china instead of a human being Carl Stanton lay and cursed the brutal Northern winter.
Between his sturdy, restive shoulders the rheumatism snarled and clawed like some utterly frenzied animal trying to gnaw-gnaw-gnaw its way out. ”

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper which it is written on unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about. And as to the Lover who does not write significant phrases--Heaven help the young mate who finds himself thus mismated to so spiritually commonplace a nature! Baffled, perplexed, strangely uneasy, Stanton lay and studied the barren page before him. ”

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ Better still, perhaps some hopelessly unpopular man in a dingy city office would go running up the last steps just a little, wee bit faster--say the second and fourth Mondays in the month--because of even a bought, made-up letter from Mary Queen of Scots that he knew absolutely without slip or blunder would be waiting there for him on his dusty, ink-stained desk among all the litter of bills and invoices concerning--shoe leather. ”

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ Then suddenly his poor heart puckered up like a persimmon with the ghastly, grim shock which a man experiences when he realizes for the first time that the woman whom he loves is not shy, but--stingy. ”

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ Nothing new came at all except that particularly wretched, itching type of insomnia which seems to rip away from one's body the whole kind, protecting skin and expose all the raw, ticklish fretwork of nerves to the mercy of a gritty blanket or a wrinkled sheet. ”

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ Mother indeed thinks that we ought not to write very much at all until our engagement is formally announced. "Trusting that your rheumatism is very much better this morning, I am "Hastily yours, "CORNELIA. "P. S. Apropos of your sentimental passion for letters, I enclose a ridiculous circular which was handed to me yesterday at the Woman's Exchange. You had better investigate it. It seems to be rather your kind." As the letter fluttered out of his hand Stanton closed his eyes with a twitch of physical suffering. ”

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ I have told you once that I love you, and that ought to be enough. People like myself do not change. I may not talk quite as much as other people, but when I once say a thing I mean it! You will never have cause, I assure you, to worry about my fidelity. ”

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ Address all communications to Serial Letter Co. Box, etc., etc. As Stanton finished reading the last solemn business detail he crumpled up the circular into a little gray wad, and pressed his blond head back into the pillows and grinned and grinned.
"Good enough!" he chuckled. "If Cornelia won't write to me there seem to be lots of other congenial souls who will--cannibals and rodents and kiddies. All the same--" he ruminated suddenly: "All the same I'll wager that there's an awfully decent little brain working away behind all that red ink and nonsense." ”

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe — I.

“ Business status: rubber broker. Prevalent tastes: To be able to sit up and eat and drink and smoke and go to the office the way other fellows do. Nature of illness: The meanest kind of rheumatism. Kindly deliver said letters as early and often as possible! "Very truly yours, etc." Sorrowfully then for a moment he studied the depleted balance in his check-book. "Of course" he argued, not unguiltily, "Of course that check was just the amount that I was planning to spend on a turquoise-studded belt for Cornelia's birthday ”

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